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10 Dec 2016 3:59:40am

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After all that, you still haven't answered my original question crank. "So what alternatives do you have to offer us crank"? Especially when you think that the world is in such dire trouble. Surely you must have some master plan to save us from the evil war lords and their demonic intent?

The words that you use such as kleptocrat, neoplastic, omnicide and neo-liberal have no existence in reality. They are words with no definite meaning and are used by confused people because they don't understand how reality actually works.

The use of such words are a reflection of their author's own insecurity, fear and paranoia.

Scratch a kleptocratic, neoplastic, omnicidal 'crank' and you'll find a well behaved, caring, nature connected citizen and visa versa. People are changing all the time according to what they think will benefit them individually the most at a particular time. I'ts actually what makes our world work and go around.

As for the imagined intent of capitalism's 'crusade' to destroy the natural world, I think you've been watching too many super hero television cartoons. The negative traits that you acuse certain institutions of possessing exist within each individual in one degree or another as changing phenomena. They are traits that I'm sure would be more evident and solidified in our world were it not for our current systems of government, finance and business. As I said before, such traits exist in small pockets of our institutions but are not the raging paracitic demons that you portray. A peasant can find happiness and contentment in their simple life as much as a billionaire can. Nay, even more so than a mind cluttered billonaire, especially in Australia.

So crank, I'll try one more time. What solid alternatives do you have to the way we do business now if you think it's all as bad as you say?

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